thoughts on getting this underway? beev - where were you up to again? a change over date so all the latest content would be backuped then transfered. goes phpBB2 have an "this site is under maintenance" mode for until the last moment? the phpBB3 setups tools include an upgrade path for all data (all? iirc.. to check). will check out the full process in time.

re a theme, beev mentioned a clone of the existing phpBB2 style. hopefully that's been improved since feb, would be good to use for familiarity, at least until someone makes a nice theme for it at the same time they do the new main site or we find something acceptable.

ok, this has been done. there may be some issues. the most likely is probably this:

Password conversion Due to the utf-8 based handling of passwords in phpBB3, it is not always possible to transfer all passwords. For passwords "lost in translation" the easiest workaround is to use the "forgotten password" function.

if anything else is amiss, post it here.

the old board was heavily customised. although a lot of the old mods are incorporated into the new version, it may not now do everything you have come to expect. anything missing that you miss, post it here.

I get notifictations about new BB posts on my email account and I've seen that instead of just a notice it gives the new posters email address too. e.g. as Beev replied last it says on my email....new email from Beev@fluffybeever.com subject: new BB post (then name of the bb subject).

What is shit about it? It is faster and more secure than the previous version. If there are things you don't like about it, I'm sure there are mods and configuration options that can make it behave more like the old version.

I think that in a week, everyone will have forgotten what the old one looked like.

neil wrote:the 'view new posts' button does not seem to remember what you haven't viewed. but it seems the board does, and keeps the unread topics flagged. this is probably better than what we had before.

this is starting to get mighty annoying for me. maybe i'll look for an add-on to provide both options.

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"Modification name: View or mark unread posts ...Modification description: Adds a 'View unread posts' or 'You have no unread posts' link on the index page (and, for subsilver2, each other page). Also adds a 'Mark post as unread' link at the bottom of each post."

sounds like it'll restore the feature we're used to.

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One thing which I'd consider changing is the highlighting of admins' names. It doesn't give the appearance of democracy/consensus if some people have their names in a different colour. Either we hack the code, so that people whose default group is the admin group don't get their names highlighted. Or we change the default group of the admins to members. I don't think the default group affects anything.

this bb sucks. i'm missing all sorts of stuff because of the lack of unread posts. I don't know why we changed to this new system when the old one was working just fine. We could get to the Forest Home Page from it etc. This is just lame.

It needs fixing real soon OR we should go backwards asap. in my opinion/.

How can anyone not see what they haven't read? Don't you have yellow icons (instead of blue) beside each forum and thread that has posts you haven't read yet? And the 'view new posts' link brings up the latest posts. Between these two things, how is it possible to miss anything?

i found a great feature yesterday - if you hit reply to a thread, then start writeing a long reply but someone else gets in with a post before you finish your message, it warns you and gives you a chance to see their post and review your post. brilliant.

neil wrote:2. There is nothing the old one can do that this one can't.

This is not true. The old "view unread posts" used to let you see a list of every topic which had posts you hadn't read in it. This was great. You could bring it up, see immediately what topics had changed and just open a tab for each topic. If you'd read everything, the page would be empty.

The new "view new posts" doesn't do this.

Now, to catch up on everything you have to start on the forum index, go into each forum that's marked red individually, and then go through all the topics in each one. You can't see it all at a glance.

Okay. Happy to do the mod install if you don't have time, I'd need the access details for the hosting.

The default theme is now subsilver2, per the other thread.

I suggest leaving tiff attachments disabled, or people may upload stuff straight from the scanner without realising the files are huge, and clog things up for everyone. There really shouldn't be a need to upload tiffs.

martin has changed the logo image on the subsilver2 theme (i think, martin?) i've linked it to the forest homepage. i've also linked the phpBB logo on the prosilver theme to the homepage, but i'm not getting into trying to change how it looks. i'll leave that to the graphic designers.

of course the whole thing could use a makeover.

the complication with having more than one theme is that when changes have to be made (such as mods or updates), they often need to be individually tailored to each theme. what we've just done is a good example. the forest logo could be slipped into the one theme easily but not the other. this can make mods & upgrades far more complex than they need be. so lets try to get one good forest theme and stick with it. and lets keep it fairly simple!

Martin wrote:I suggest leaving tiff attachments disabled, or people may upload stuff straight from the scanner without realising the files are huge, and clog things up for everyone. There really shouldn't be a need to upload tiffs.

although this issue is sorted, while i can see the "Moderator Control Panel" i can't see the "Administration Panel" (which is where you install mods). might someone be able to look at/sort this for moi? danke.

edit; actually, forget that, just found that if i go to a users profile i get "Administrate user" which gives me a relogin screen that takes me to the Admin section. ah well, sorted.

edit2; oh, and there's that handy link right at the bottom.. *facepalm*

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Is it because you both have more than 100 messages in your inbox? I had this problem. There is some link where you can look at messages that can't fit in your inbox. Deleting stuff helps too. Your message is probably from me, JB. It is vital that you read it.